Area residents could be seen scrambling to flee the flames, packing cars and loading horses into trailers as authorities issued more mandatory evacuations Friday afternoon May 3, 2013.
Early on the favorite to win today's Kentucky Derby was a horse by the name of Orb, but with a forecast for rain, all of the analysis and handicapping may be for nought so it's wait-and-see time.
The Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale promises to be a springtime highlight at Colorado State University in late April, when 81 American Quarter Horses both promising young horses and proven older horses will be offered for sale.
Legends provides a learning experience for students in CSU's Equine Sciences Program with students starting the well-bred young horses with faculty guidance in horse-training laboratories that run during academic year.
Equine Canada is recognized by Sport Canada and the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) as the national governing body for equestrian sports and recreation in Canada.
Orb is the 3-1 favorite in a field of 14 in this third leg of the Tiple Crown at Belmont Park, and Shug McGaughey appears confident that his horse can bounce back from his fourth-place finish in the Preakness.
 Will the wet, muddy track favor Orb, Oxbow or another of the horses when the 145th Belmont Stakes takes off from the starting gate near The Big Apple on June 8, 2013?.
The Kentucky Equine Youth Festival returns to the Kentucky Horse Park's Alltech Arena on March 27, 2013, to showcase the horse to school children and equine youth groups.
Many had hoped that this would be another 1978 when Affirmed won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and Belmont, but Orb couldn't outrun Oxbow and trailed at 4th place at the finish.
Of the 478 horses the USDA swabbed for illegal substances, 309 tested positive meaning 65 percent of horses in random samplings at 2012 horse shows had been sored.